Ash-sifter.



l LOUIS soltnn, or ronouro, ourAnIo, cannna.

ASH-$IFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1917.

Application filed June 4, 1914. Serial No. 842,931.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SoRnN, a subject of the King of Great Britain,residing at Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario,Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements inAsh-Sifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in ash sifters and one of theprincipal objects of the invention is to prevent the escape of thecontents of the sifter during the usual agitation thereof to separatethe ashes from the cinders. V

In one of the most improved embodiments of my invention 1 provide asingle casing having a cinder chamber adapted to deliver to an ashchamber, both chambers being adapted to be tightly closed during thesifting operation.

Other featuresof novelty and construction will be more fully describedin connection with the accompanying drawing and will be moreparticularly pointed out in and by the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of an ash sifterembodying one form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view looking in the direction of arrow 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view'thereof. Like characters of reference designatesimilar parts throughout the different figures of the drawin e Asillustrated, 51c device of my invention comprises a casing 1, open atthe top and closed at the bottom. If the casing is formed of sheet metalthe top margins may conveniently be bent outwardly to form flange guides2 for a cover 3. The margins 4, of the cover .3 may be bent downwardlyand inwardly as shown to form grooves adapted toreceive the flangeguides 2 so as to hold the cover 3 to a straight line of travel whenmoved from an opening to a closing position, or vice versa, and also toform a tight joint with the casing when the cover is closed. The rearend of the cover may be bent inwardly, as indicated at 5, to

embrace a rearwardly projecting flange 6,

. formed on the rear wall of the casing 1.

The front end of the cover 7, may be soproportioned as to extend frontflange 8 so the front margin.

Any suitable form of handle, as indicated at 9,'may extend through thecasing 1 and be secured at the front end thereof by a brad or nail 10,the latter extending through the flange 8.

The casing 1 is preferably horizontally partitioned, as at 11, to dividethe casing into an upper ash chamber 12 and a lower ash chamber 13. Thepartition 11 may be provided with openings 14, of any desired size, sothat when the sifter is agitated the ashes will sift through theopenings from the chamber 12 to the chamber 13.

At the front of the casing 1 an opening 15 is provided to discharge theashesand a closure 16 is preferably slidably mounted on the casing 1 toopen or close said opening 15. I desirably provide flanges 17 at thefront end of the casing 1 adapted to be engaged by suitably inturnedflanges 18, on the closure 16 to permit the latter to slide into and outof closing position. In order to make a tight joint I provide a groovedprojection 19, on the bottom of the casing, so that the lower margin ofthe closure 16 can slide into the grooved portion 19 and providefa tightfit.

It will be seen from the foregoing that after the ashes and cinders havebeen deposited into the upper cinder chamber 12, the cover 3 and theclosure 16 can be moved into closed position and the sifter can beagitated without the annoying escape of clouds of ashes into the face ofthe user. When the ashes have been sifted, the closure 16 may be openedand the ashes may be allowed to discharge from the chamber 13 byinclining the casing 1, and subsequently, the casing can be overturnedor inverted so as to remove the cindersin the chamber 12.

While I have herein shown and described one specific form of myinvention I do not wish to be limited thereto except for suchlimitations as the claim may import.

I claim An ash sifter comprising two side and two end Walls, a bottomplate, a cover and a handle, the upper horizontal edge of the end wallsbeing outstruck, the body portion of the handle being adapted to extendfrom.

sufficiently over a as to form a tight joint at one end Willi throughthe interior of the In testimony whereof I afiiX my signesifter and toproject through the opposite ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

end Wall means'being, adapted to be passed through the outstrnck flatngeof -the outer E 5 Well and to extend downwardly and-t0 en- Witnesses:

gage the body portion of the hendle tyhere- D. S;;:T0VE 1 by to retainthe latter in applied position. H. M. OHRISTMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents-each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

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